How do you make leche quemada

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Click here to view Recipe Card Protectors and Sleeves. Prep Time: 5 minutes. Cook Time: 20 minutes. Total Time: 25 minutes. Servings: pieces. Ingredients US Customary - Metric. Instructions Line a 9 X 13 inch baking dish with foil or parchment paper. Spray well with nonstick cooking spray. Place the sweetened condensed milk, brown sugar, and salt in a large quart sauce pot and set over medium-high heat.

Secure a candy thermometer to the side of the pot. Stir well and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower the heat to medium-low. Stir continually until the candy thermometer reaches "soft ball" temperature, or degrees F. It's okay if the bottom browns and little burnt sugar pieces are floating around the mixture.

Just make sure to keep stirring! At degrees F, remove from heat and immediately stir in the butter and vanilla extract. Once smooth, carefully pour the mixture into the prepared dish and allow the mixture to cool. When the Mexican Burnt Milk Candy is firm, but still warm, cut into small squares. Do not wait to cut the candy when it's all the way cool.

It becomes hard to cut. Course: Dessert. Cuisine: Mexican. Author: Sommer Collier. Share Pin Twitter Email. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Rate it! Did you make this recipe? Jeanette F Murphy — December 18, pm Reply.

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Roxsan — August 3, pm Reply. Jamie Wurts — December 19, pm Reply. Sommer Collier — December 20, pm Reply. Hi Jamie, LOL!! Raney Finto — December 11, pm Reply. Sommer Collier — December 19, pm Reply. Hi Raney, Sorry about that. Did you use a candy thermometer? Sharon Mullin — February 9, pm Reply. You can rate this recipe by giving it a score of one, two, three, or four forks, which will be averaged out with other cooks' ratings.

If you like, you can also share your specific comments, positive or negative - as well as any tips or substitutions - in the written review space. Cancel Print. Submitted by jburke90 Updated: December 12, Dulce De Leche Quemada means burnt milk candy. I dug up this recipe from my archives because it makes for a good stay-at-home project. As far as candy-making goes, this is fairly straightforward, and you may want to let the kids join in, safely though.

We had four pecan trees in our backyard, so the lush candy was laden with plenty of roasted pecans.